Starhunter 2300 Canadian sci-fi TV series. Many episodes of this series take place in part of the Saturn system, designated as "Saturn Federation." The spaceship carrying the main characters is the Trans-Utopian, which travels frequently between Saturn, Jupiter and Mars. Various moons of Saturn are mentioned, including Titan and Iapetus. There is also a large space station orbiting Saturn at which the Trans-Utopian docks, called "Ring-Shepherd."

In the novel The True Meaning of Smekday, the Boov, after leaving Earth, colonize one of Saturn's moons. It is "a bit of a fixer-upper", though.

The Daedalus Series, by Michael J. Martinez, including novels The Daedalus Incident (2013),[1]The Enceladus Crisis (2014),[2] and The Venusian Gambit (2015), incorporate an advanced civilization native to the Saturnian rings and moons, especially Titan, Mimas, and Enceladus. In the books, Saturn is referred to as Great Xanath.

Janus is a small inner moon of Saturn notable for having an orbit nearly identical to the orbit of the moon Epimetheus; the two swap orbital positions every four years.

Janus features prominently in Alastair Reynolds' science fiction novel Pushing Ice (2005). In the novel, Janus is revealed to be a shell containing an extraterrestrial spacecraft which unexpectedly departs the solar system in the direction of a giant structure orbiting the star Spica. The novel tells the story of the crew of a human mining ship who establish a colony on the moon as it leaves the solar system.

Mimas is a small, icy moon orbiting close to Saturn, notable for being scarred by Herschel crater, whose diameter is very wide compared to the total circumference of the moon.

In Isaac Asimov's 1958 novel Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn the hero, knowing that Mimas is almost entirely made of ice, guides his ship on a collision course towards it, melts its surface with his weapons, and thus hides the ship in order to escape from his enemies, the people from the Sirius System.

In "Zero Summer," a short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan, Mimas is the destination of a starship manned by two androids.

In Grant Callin's science fiction novel Saturnalia, Mimas is one of the locations of an alien artifact. It is also the site of human colonization and mining called "M-Base".

In the table-top science fiction game Warhammer 40,000, Mimas serves as a high-security prison for the most dangerous prisoners of the Ordo Malleus branch of the Inquisition.

In Paul J. McAuley's The Quiet War (2008), Mimas is home to a notable "Outer" family which has profound influence over Jovian/Saturnian satellite politics.

In Harry Turtledove's short story Les Mortes d'Arthur (1985), Herschel crater (named Arthur in the story) is the site of the terrestrial part of the sixty-sixth Olympic Winter Games (2194) and the setting of a murder mystery.

Enceladus is a small, icy moon orbiting close to Saturn, notable for its extremely bright surface and the geyser-like plumes of ice and water vapor that erupt from its southern polar region. It is the source of material for Saturn's E Ring.

In the 1930s Buck Rogersold time radio show, Enceladus makes an appearance. In the story entitled "Killer Kane and Ardala on Saturn's moon," the titular villains try to take over the peaceful government of the Saturnian moon. The moon is depicted as having an atmosphere and supporting a happy population of humanoid life. Buck races to the moon to set things right.

In Exosquad, Enceladus was the location of a heavily fortified Pirate Clans' outpost and the site of the second battle between them and the Exofleet just prior to the beginning of the Terran-Neosapien war.

In Grant D. Callin's science fiction novel Saturnalia, Enceladus is one of the locations of an alien artifact.

At the conclusion of the Time Machine book The Rings of Saturn (set in 2085), the spacecraft blows up Enceladus as it returns to Earth after meeting an alien life-form.

In Charles Pellegrino'sDust, the narrative switches periodically to a robotic probe landing on Enceladus in search of life.

In Paul J. McAuley's The Quiet War (2008), Enceladus serves as one of the battlefields as Earth invades Saturn's inhabited satellites in the 23rd Century.

In the GURPS sourcebook GURPS Space: Terradyne, the Terradyne corporation detonates a nuclear explosion on Enceladus to alter its orbit to eventually impact Mars, as part of its Martian terraforming project.

In the Futurama episode "Cold Warriors", Enceladus is referred to as "Saturn's main dump moon", and is the location of a specimen of the cold virus from the 20th century.

The Yamato stops at Enceladus in the fourth episode of Space Battleship Yamato 2199 to acquire a rare metal for essential repairs, and to find possible survivors transmitting a distress signal. Isolated Yamato crew members are pursued by enemy forces, but are saved by an ice geyser.

In Grant D. Callin's science fiction novel Saturnalia, Dione is one of the locations of an alien artifact.

In the early Noon Universe novel Space Apprentice by Strugatsky brothers as the heroes stop there on their way (one of them is a planetologist and has some interest in the moon's observatory) they found that its administrator made it a living hell for everybody. This revelation serves as one of the major plot points in the novel.

In Paul J. McAuley's The Quiet War (2008), Dione's Paris is the leading settlement amongst Saturn's inhabited "Outer" satellite colonies, and suffers heavily due to its vocal resistance.

Hyperion is the largest irregularly-shaped moon of Saturn, orbiting between Titan and Iapetus.

Level 16 of the computer game Descent takes place in a methane mine on Hyperion.

In Dan Simmons's Hyperion, the eponymous planet was first colonised by settlers from a colony on the moon Hyperion.

In Alastair Reynolds' science fiction novel On the Steel Breeze (2012), Hyperion is home to a colony of "artists and malcontents", including the reclusive Aresthusa, a visionary who has had her body altered to resemble a whale's.

Iapetus is a large moon orbiting further from Saturn than any of its other large satellites. Half of its surface is very bright while the other half is extremely dark. Investigations since 2004 have also noted its irregular shape, immense impact basins, and a high mountainous ridge on the equator.

In Theodore Sturgeon's short story "The Comedian's Children" (1958), a manned expedition to Iapetus in 2034 creates a public craze for black/white designs and "bi-colored gimcrackery", but is later linked to iapetitis, a disease in children where one side of the body turns white and paralyzed, the other black.

In Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), astronaut Dave Bowman finds an enigmatic alien monolith waiting for him on the surface of Iapetus (referred to as "Japetus" throughout). Iapetus's two tone coloration is caused by a vast white ellipse on the moon's surface, with the monolith appearing as a black dot in its exact center. When the Voyager space probes arrived at Iapetus thirteen years later, they discovered that there was indeed a black region within the moon's brighter hemisphere. Clarke reports that Carl Sagan, who was on the Voyager imaging team, sent him a photo, with the note "Thinking of you ...".[3] Because of difficulties achieving a convincing model of Saturn's rings, the sequels and film version of 2001: A Space Odyssey relocated the monolith to an orbit around Jupiter.

In Grant Callin's 1986 science fiction novel Saturnalia, Iapetus is one of the locations of an alien artifact. There is also human colonization and mining at an installation called "I-Base".

In John Varley's Gaea trilogy, Iapetus is used as a "nest" for a fledgling Titan. One of the objectives of the Ringmaster mission to Saturn is to investigate the moon's dark region recently contracting to a narrow band; Gaea reveals this is the result of her offspring entering a new stage of development. When it is fully mature, Iapetus will be shattered and the new Titan born out of its rubble.

In Jack McDevitt's The Engines of God (1996), there is a strange ice-made icon on Iapetus. It leads to a depressing discovery that every intelligent civilization of the Galaxy could be obliterated by an unknown Dark Force from the void between Galaxy's arms.

Iapetus is the setting of the book Aliens: Steel Egg by John Shirley (2007).

In the online comic by Joshua Quagmire, "Bunz & Katz" (Nov 2012 - current) Iapetus is revealed to be an ancient, near-derelict alien battle station which is "awakened" by the Cassini probe fly-by. The series' protagonists are the only surviving scouts from this station.

Phoebe is a retrograde orbiting moon in the outer Saturn system. It is the largest of the Saturnian irregular moons.

In James S.A. Corey's Expanse series, Phoebe is actually an alien biological warhead that was accidentally captured by Saturn on its way to reprogram protozoan life on Earth. The extraction and use as a weapon of the protomolecular payload of Phoebe drives the primary conflicts of the series. After the protomolecule is used against Eros, Phoebe is destroyed via thermonuclear bombardment by the Martian space navy to keep anyone else from obtaining samples, and to prevent it from getting loose in the system.